Unsolicited Art Gets Japanese Artist Arrested

Famous
Japanese artist Yoshimoto Nara has been arrested in New York City due
to a controversial new piece of art: a doodle in the New York Subway.
Yup, Nara was picked up for “criminal mischief, possession of
graffiti instruments, making graffiti and resisting arrest,”
according to Japan
Today.

Don't
go freaking out and sending angry letters to the NYPD, now, Nara
himself isn't even upset. His response: it was “a nice experience
in my life” and kind of like being in the movies. He must have
gotten put in the nice
prison.

Nara's
other
works are available for viewing at the New York Museum of Modern Art,
so if you New Yorkers like the art shown here and have time to hit up
the MoMA before March 28,
you might want to consider doing it.

There's a police station in Union Square, so Yoshimoto's arrest was pretty much guaranteed. That he was nabbed the day before his show opened lends some credence that this may have been a rogue publicity stunt on his part; it worked, didn't it? :)